“It is here that John Burn's study of patients with Lynch Syndrome, which vastly increases the risk of colorectal and other forms of cancer, enters the picture. In 2020, Burn published the results of a landmark randomised controlled trial of 861 patients with the condition. Following the participants for 10 years, his team discovered that people who had taken a daily 600mg dose of aspirin for at least two years effectively halved their risk of colorectal cancer.”

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“Aspirin can reduce the risk of cancer - and we're starting to understand why”

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260420-cancer-how-aspirin-may-be-a-powerful-new-weapon-against-tumours